The Eye of GNOME Image Viewer application enables you to view single image files, as well as large image collections.
You can start Image Viewer in the following ways:
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Open an image file in Nautilus.
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Choose from the menu.
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Run eog at the prompt in a terminal such as gnome-terminal, or from the Run Application dialogue.
To close the current Image Viewer window choose , or press Ctrl+W.
Image Viewer supports a variety of image file formats. The following image formats can be opened:
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ANI - Animation
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BMP - Windows Bitmap
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GIF - Graphics Interchange Format
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ICO - Windows Icon
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JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group
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PCX - PC Paintbrush
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PNG - Portable Network Graphics
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PNM - Portable Anymap from the PPM Toolkit
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RAS - Sun Raster
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SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics
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TGA - Targa
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TIFF - Tagged Image File Format
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WBMP - Wireless Bitmap
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XBM - X Bitmap
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XPM - X Pixmap
Image Viewer supports the following formats for saving:
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BMP - Windows Bitmap
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ICO - Windows Icon
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JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group
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PNG - Portable Network Graphics
Image Viewer may be able to open and save other image formats, depending on your system configuration and other installed software.
Image Viewer has a variety of features to help you view your images. You can zoom in and out or view the image full screen. Regardless of your zoom level, Image Viewer uses a low amount of memory. You can also rotate and flip the image you are viewing.
The collection view allows the viewing and editing of large image collections. In this view image operations can be applied to all selected images at once.
Image Viewer has special support for digital camera pictures and displays EXIF metadata recorded with the image. This feature requires libexif to be installed on your system. All modifications made in JPEG images are lossless. That is, saving rotated and flipped JPEG images will not recompress the image. Besides this, all available metadata (like EXIF) will be preserved and updated accordingly.
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- Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004 Sun Microsystems
- Copyright © 2000 Eliot Landrum
- Copyright © 2000 The Free Software Foundation
- Copyright © 2007 David Lodge (dave@cirt.net)
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